Senior Director, Portfolio Corporate Accounts
Sobi · Waltham · $250,000–$275,000 (stated in the posting)
Company Description
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At Sobi, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. We are dedicated to developing and delivering innovative therapies to improve the lives of people who live with a rare disease. Our edge comes from our team of people and our commitment to patients.
Our mission and culture at Sobi North America get us excited to come to work every day, but here are a few more reasons to join our team:
- Competitive compensation for your work
- Generous time off policy
- Opportunity to broaden your horizons by attending popular conferences
- Emphasis on work/life balance
- Collaborative and team-oriented environment
- Making a positive impact to help ultra-rare disease patients who are in need of life saving treatments
Job Description
The Senior Director, Portfolio Corporate Accounts role is a key leadership position within U.S. Market Access, leading Sobi’s Corporate Account Director team and driving the company’s national strategy across integrated delivery networks (IDNs), hospitals, and health systems.
This leader will shape and execute a portfolio-wide approach to strategic corporate accounts, ensuring consistent and effective engagement with hospital executives, pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) decision-makers, and other influential health-system stakeholders. The Senior Director will lead a high-performing team of Corporate Account Directors focused on expanding appropriate formulary access, supporting contracting strategies, and driving adoption across Sobi’s rare disease portfolio.
Working closely with partners across Market Access, Medical Affairs, Health Economics, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, and Compliance, the Senior Director will translate portfolio strategy into actionable account plans and ensure Sobi brings the right resources and expertise to its most important health-system customers.
This is an opportunity for an experienced strategic account leader to build and strengthen Sobi’s capabilities within the evolving IDN landscape while leading a team with national reach and meaningful impact for patients living with rare diseases.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and develop the Corporate Account Director team by setting clear objectives, expectations, and accountability.
- Set national account priorities, account assignments, performance objectives, and measures of success aligned with Sobi’s portfolio strategy.
- Recruit, hire, onboard, and retain exceptional Corporate Account Directors to strengthen Sobi’s capabilities within the IDN and health-system landscape.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture grounded in Sobi’s values, leadership principles, and compliance standards.
Strategic Account Leadership
- Lead national IDN and health-system strategy across the Sobi portfolio, ensuring consistent, effective execution across priority accounts.
- Establish and maintain senior-level relationships with key IDN and health-system stakeholders, serving as an executive partner and escalation point for strategic accounts.
- Guide the Corporate Account Director team through hospital and health-system formulary processes and advance appropriate access to Sobi therapies.
- Coordinate the strategic deployment of cross-functional resources, including Medical Affairs and Health Economics, in support of priority accounts and customer needs.
- Translate marketplace and customer insights into recommendations that inform corporate account, Market Access, and broader commercial strategy.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with senior stakeholders across Value & Access, Medical Affairs, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Legal, Compliance, and other functions to develop and execute integrated IDN strategies.
- Support the development and approval of business cases associated with strategic account initiatives, programs, and sponsorships.
- Coordinate with cross-functional partners to support appropriate educational and marketing initiatives within IDNs and health systems.
- Ensure Corporate Account priorities and customer insights are represented in broader portfolio and commercial planning.
Performance Management & Insights
- Leverage account performance data, dashboards, and market insights to identify opportunities, prioritize strategic accounts, and optimize team resources.
- Establish meaningful performance measures and use insights to continuously strengthen team and account effectiveness.
- Provide leadership with visibility into strategic account performance, contracting activity, customer dynamics, and emerging opportunities across priority IDNs and health systems.
- Identify evolving market trends and access challenges that may impact Sobi’s portfolio and translate those insights into actionable recommendations.
External Engagement & Field Support
- Lead Corporate Account Director and cross-functional engagement at key hospital, health-system, IDN, and industry conferences and summits.
- Represent the Corporate Accounts function in senior leadership and cross-functional forums.
- Ensure relevant IDN and health-system insights are communicated to and appropriately support the U.S. field organization in a compliant manner.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on strategic account management, IDNs, hospital systems, and evolving customer dynamics.
Qualifications
Required
- BA/BS degree.
- 10+ years of progressive experience within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or related healthcare environment.
- 5+ years of experience in IDN, hospital/health-system, Corporate Accounts, GPO, or strategic account management.
- 3+ years of people management or demonstrated leadership of field-based strategic account teams.
- Demonstrated experience navigating hospital and health-system decision-making, including formulary and access processes.
- Experience working across multiple products and/or therapeutic areas, ideally including rare or orphan diseases.
- Demonstrated success collaborating cross-functionally to develop and execute strategic account initiatives.
Preferred
- Master’s degree, MBA, or other relevant advanced degree.
- 12+ years of progressive biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or related healthcare industry experience.
- Previous leadership of Corporate Account Directors, National Account Directors, or comparable field-based strategic account teams.
- Product launch experience within a multi-product or portfolio environment.
- Experience in rare disease, oncology, and/or hematology.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Proven ability to build, coach, motivate, and lead a high-performing, geographically dispersed strategic account team.
- Deep understanding of IDNs, hospital and health-system customers, strategic account management, and the evolving U.S. healthcare landscape.
- Strong business and strategic acumen with the ability to translate broader organizational priorities into actionable account plans and measurable outcomes.
- Executive-level communication, influencing, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Demonstrated ability to establish trusted relationships with senior health-system leaders and internal stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to use account and market data to identify opportunities and guide prioritization.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complex organizations and align cross-functional stakeholders around shared objectives.
- Ability to listen to customer, field, and market feedback and translate insights into strategic action.
- Ability to lead effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment while managing competing priorities across a national organization.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and relevant CRM, analytics, and strategic account management systems.
Additional Information
Compensation and Total Rewards at Sobi
At Sobi, we are dedicated to providing our employees with a comprehensive and industry-competitive total rewards package. Our compensation philosophy is designed to recognize and reward talent, ensuring that your contributions are valued and reflected in your overall rewards.
Your total compensation at Sobi goes beyond just your base salary and annual bonus. It also includes a robust suite of benefits, such as:
- A competitive 401(k) match to support your financial future.
- Tuition and wellness reimbursements to invest in your personal and professional growth.
- A comprehensive medical, dental, and vision package to prioritize your health and well-being.
- Additional recognition awards to celebrate your achievements.
The base salary range for this role is $250,000 - $275,000. Each individual offer will be determined based on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, and location. Additionally, this role is eligible for both short-term and long-term bonuses, as outlined in the plan details.
All Sobi employees need to demonstrate behaviors in line with Sobi's core values: Care, Ambition, Urgency, Ownership and Partnership. Are you ready to be on the Sobi team? Come join a culture that empowers every person to be the person that makes a difference for rare disease.
- Why Join Us?
- We are a global company with over 1,900 employees in more than 30 countries and are committed to the societies where we operate. With a deeply skilled management team directing our day-to-day wins, and a Board with a stellar track record, we’re ready to take on the world’s diseases, ailments and adversity. Our people believe they have the power to make a positive impact in others’ lives because that’s exactly what we do here. If you’re seeking a career that taps into your talents in a way that makes the world a better, healthier place, we just may have a job for you.
- We know our employees are our most valuable asset, and our culture conveys that. We offer a competitive benefits package, to support the health and happiness of our staff.
- Sobi Culture
- At Sobi, we refuse to accept the status quo. This is because we have witnessed first-hand the challenges facing those affected by rare diseases, and have used this knowledge to shape our business to find new ways of helping them.
- As a specialized biopharmaceutical company, we are dedicated to rare diseases. And we see this focus as a strength. By effectively turning our research into ground-breaking treatments, we help make medicine more accessible and open up more possibilities for patients and more opportunities for those caring for them. This has been our approach since day one, but we know we can’t change the world of rare diseases on our own. Accomplishing this requires strong partnerships with patients, partners and stakeholders across the entire value chain. Together, we define how our business can create solutions that serve the needs of those affected by rare diseases while facilitating sustainable growth.
- An Equal Opportunity Employer
- Sobi is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions at Sobi are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veterans and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status or protected groups by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
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